How many Ex Matelots on here ??

[Charlies Shinpad]

After ther thread on Trafalgar day yesterday, it seems we have more than our fair share of Ex Sailors on this board,

Just like to do a quick Muster for all us salty old sea dogs on here.

Please leave your Bases, Ships and Boats in which you served please.

I will start.

HMS Ganges
HMS Collingwood
HMS Antrim
HMS Ulster
HMS Rame Head
HMS Dolphin
HMS Neptune
HMS/M Renown (S)
HMS/M Revenge (P)

 

[Emily's Mum]

I've not served in the Navy, but I am the Editor of the Navy List. I'm currently helping to defend the Falklands and one of my colleagues was the first ever sea-going wren

 

[Saltydog]

Was in the "real navy" dos that count

 

[manilaseagull]

Rum Bum and Baccy......ex crab here

 

[Daffy Duck]

My Dad was in the Royal Navy during the war. Does that count?

He was on destroyers in the Arctic convoys and the Atlantic.
And he was the signalman who gave the signal to start the invasion of Sicily.

 

[Chicken Run]

HMS Raleigh
HMS Dryad
HMS Cardiff
HMS Nelson
HMS Dolphin

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

1989-1996
HMS Bristol
HMS Newcastle
HMS Invincible
HMS Glasgow
Raleigh and Dryad shore bases
Happy days indeed
Rum,bum and consatina !

 

[TheBlueAndWhiteStrips]

Granddad was in the navy during the war. HMS Icarus and HMS Sardonyx

 

[daveinprague]

71-75
Raleigh
Mercury
Old Ark
Lowestoft

 

[Seagull on the wing]

1954-1966
HMS St Vincent
HMS Saintes
HMS Armada
HMS Vernon
HMS Dryad
HMS Vanguard
HMS Alert
HMS Dryad
HMS Venus
HMS Dryad
HMS Victory...demob

 

[junior]

I've not served in the Navy, but I am the Editor of the Navy List. I'm currently helping to defend the Falklands and one of my colleagues was the first ever sea-going wren

Small world, i'm out in the Falklands at the moment too.

 

[smudge]

Joined 78, left 2005.

Raleigh
Seahawk
Osprey
Invincible
QEII (Falklands 82)
Fearless
Heron
Ark Royal
Illustrious
Excellent (Phoenix)

4 drafts on Invincible as AB, Killick, PO & finally Chief
3 full drafts on Fearless (9 & a half years)

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Joined 78, left 2005.

Raleigh
Seahawk
Osprey
Invincible
QEII (Falklands 82)
Fearless
Heron
Ark Royal
Illustrious
Excellent (Phoenix)

4 drafts on Invincible as AB, Killick, PO & finally Chief
3 full drafts on Fearless (9 & a half years)

Old fucker!

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Joined 78, left 2005.

Raleigh
Seahawk
Osprey
Invincible
QEII (Falklands 82)
Fearless
Heron
Ark Royal
Illustrious
Excellent (Phoenix)

4 drafts on Invincible as AB, Killick, PO & finally Chief
3 full drafts on Fearless (9 & a half years)

 

[Saltydog]

Anyone server on HMS Brighton? She was an Anti-sub frigate if I recall. I did not serve on her but "hitched" a lift down from Sunderland to Portsmouth I think it was in the mid 70's.

 

[smudge]

Old fucker!

I forgot Daedalus & I was at Caledonia when Lusty was in refit, 02. (Ran Brickwoods for them!)

 

[smudge]

Pull up a bollard Das & I'll spin you a dit!

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

1964 HMS Ganges
HMS Dryad
HMS Bulwark
HMS Dryad
HMS Sirius
HMS Dundas / HMS Hardy (Portland Squadron
HMS Osprey (Ops Room)
1975 Escape committee.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

81-86
A babe in comparison to some of the old dogs on here.
HMS Raleigh
HMS Daedalus
899, 809 & the mighty 846 NAS with the Happy Hermes, Invince RFA Reliant
HMS Victory
HMS Opsrey

 

[brightoon]

10 years as an Radio Operator. Hms Raleigh, Hms Mercury, Hms Active, Comcen Fort Southwick, Hms Collingwood, Hms Southampton and finally main gate at Dryad.